Affiliations: [a] Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy | [b] Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada | [c] Mentor Infolytica – A Siemens Business, Montreal, PQ, Canada
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Corresponding author: Najmeh Rezaei, Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, via Ferrata 5, 27100 Pavia, Italy. Tel.: +39 0382985785; Fax: +39 0382 422276; E-mail: [email protected]
Abstract: The main aim of this work is to determine the optimal shape design of a class of Interior Permanent-Magnet (IPM) motors for electric vehicles (EV), by means of many-objective optimisation which is an emerging area in the automated optimal design. As the case study, a 3-phase, 4-pole single-barrier IPM motor is modelled by means of using finite-element analysis. The goal is to optimise the motor’s performance in terms of a number of design criteria such as the power losses, running torque, torque ripple and material costs, by varying size and position of the permanent magnet and flux barriers.
